your disk
/home/you/Music
the library
tie:/musicOne library, five ways in
Each app keeps its own collection profile (images, audio, files) and its own
window, but they share the same tie: namespace. That is why tie-fm can hand an
image to tie-view, and why tie-audio can play the album you found in the file
manager without importing it again.
gallery/) used by imgview, tie-view and tie-audio's cover wall.tiestyle) gives every app the same surfaces, teal accent, light/dark variants and contrast floor.tie:<hash> URLs. Other apps open them in place, with the right collection already selected.Pick the one you need
imgview needs no library, no import and no server. Point it at a folder, an archive or a video file.
Open imgview →Use tie-fm for the import and the cleanup, tie-view for tagging and rating, and tie-audio for listening.
Start with tie →A note on platforms
The five apps are Linux-first, and the desktop builds work on Windows and macOS through Fyne. tie-view and tie-audio also ship Android builds, and imgview has a folder picker for the same. tie-fm’s device browsing (USB drives, MTP phones) is Linux-only because it uses udisks2 and libmtp directly.
